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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Just what we need...

This is a marvellous idea, because it means that there will be one single checkpoint for passports and immigration, instead of several checks. I do think it could be taken further though: after all, if people have managed to sneak into this country for years despite several agencies supposedly checking up on them, will it not be all the more easy when it is just one? For this reason I propose not bothering to monitor our borders at all.

Instead, we should put more money into counting the number of immigrants (legal and illegal), who HAVE managed to get into the country. This could be achieved simply by knocking on every door of every house and seeing how many people are inside. According to Panorama, this might be the only way.

I will be interested to see how the government plans to resource the Border Police, if it does indeed consist of fully-fledged police officers. No doubt by paying £5000 more than any other force can afford and then advertising in Police Review.

Like everything in this country its going to be a Lion with no bloody teeth or claws. Try and sneak into the states by boat and you risk getting blown out of the water by the coast guard, break in through mexico and you'll get shot by the border patrols, hijack a plane and you'll get blown out of the sky by the airforce. Sneak into this country and not only will we house you, but we'll feed you, let you bring your family in and then apologise for you if you decide that being a criminal is more lucrative than trying to work for a living. This country is fucked.

So Mr Brown recommends a new Border Police, from multi-agency type of approach. Great news. This will help with immigration and the like, I'm sure. But then again perhaps not.

We know where every untaxed car is in the country, located amongst all the millions of cars there are on the roads withn the UK, allegedly. We are able to clamp and then seize offending cars, as well as prosecute the owners.

We haven't a clue where almost all of the illegal immigrants and other unwelcome visitors or overstayers are. This includes the terrorists, potential terrorists and their misplaced sympathisers, supporters and accomplices.

well....as a legal immigrant (not that Id have ever entertained the idea of even being anything other than legal)!!!, and having never ever have travelled out of my own country until coming to the UK, I didnt even know Id past through immigration/border/customs when I came to England!!!!!!! I got my cases, spoke to a lady who was so good at her job I didnt even see her stamp my passport, and then walked out to meet my friend. I actually just presumed the woman I spoke with was like a airport check-in person. I would have found it more 'official' had I known the lady id spoken with was indeed immigration by her having a uniform. Oh and this was Nov 2001.

I'll trade you a unified border police force for half a pack of extra gum, £1.20 in change and

"Everybody in Spain over 14 must have a National Identity Card issued by National Police. On the front side of the document there is a color photograph, the name and two surnames, the signature and the id number. It also contains the issue date and the expiration date. Depending on the age of the person the card has a validity of 5, 10 years or permanent. In the back side of the card the birth date and place, the genre, the father's name (where known) and mother's name and the current address. At the bottom of the back side some of the previous information is written in special characters suitable to be read by OCRs.

The id number is an eight digit number followed by a letter. The letter is only a CRC used to check the correctness of the number. The id number is not unique.

In Spain, an ID card is the most important document of a citizen. It is used in all public and private transactions. It is required to create a bank account, to make a contract, to have state insurance, to register in a university or to be fined by a policeman. It is one of the official documents required to vote at any election, although any other form of official ID such as the driving license of the passport may be used. Also, it is required to be shown at every police officer's request. A refusal could be considered a reason to be detained or arrested."

MarcusaYou misunderstand the thinking behind the policy.We don't mind white european migrants turning up to work in burger king.It's those other chaps from Africa and pakistan and so on that we don't like.I'm sure regular contributor british national party member would agree that this is a perfectly reasonable distinction to make.Don't forget, if we didn't allow a load of eastern europeans in to do all our crappy jobs, we might have to force our local underclass morons off the dole and into work to fill vacant positions. Politicians think that this would be an unpopular move. They are, of course, wrong.

personally, pcr, i mind anyone turning up unless they're needed. race is irrelevant.why is london full of aussie barmen, while outside the streets are littered with hood-wearing yobs smoking dope, talking like Ali G and signing on?

8. Two border agents face heavy prison time for injuring a drug smuggler they thought was armed: In one of the most disturbing stories of the year, two U.S. Border Patrol agents were sentenced to prison terms of 11 years and 12 years for shooting a drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks as he fled across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Former U.S. Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos embraced his wife, Monica Ramos, two days before he was sentenced to 11 years in prison (Courtesy El Paso Times)

On Feb. 17, Alonso, 37, an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Naval Reserve and a former nominee for Border Patrol Agent of the Year, responded to a request for backup from Compean, 28, who had seen a suspicious van near the border town of Fabens, Texas.

Both pursued a suspect, a drug smuggler by the name of Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, who fled across the border to Mexico, but not before the agents saw what they believed to be a gun in his hands and heard shots fired. Both fired in return in an effort to stop his escape.

Far from being awarded medals for heroism, the two agents were hit with charges of violating the illegal alien's civil rights. The suspect, with 800 pounds of marijuana in his van, was given full immunity from prosecution to testify against the agents.

It turns out Border Patrol agents are forbidden from pursuing fleeing suspects.

Hmm....I can gaurantee that a Border Force will be undertrained, and managed by idiots who know nothing about our borders and the work needed to protect them...oh hold on that our Customs service now!!!!